Mascarpone and white chocolate tart with black and blueberries

An excellent tart with a velvety filling made with white chocolate and mascarpone cheese. This creamy filling blends perfectly with the sweetness and acidity of black and blueberries. It should be prepared a day before and then assembled easily the next day. A must try! The creamy filling's recipe comes from the very interesting Italian blog: La mia pasticceria moderna.

Ingredients for the filling

Mascarpone and white chocolate tart with black and blueberries Directions

For the filling: soak gelatin sheets in cold water for 10 minutes. If you use powdered gelatine, add some cold water and let it swell for 10 minutes.

Melt white chocolate over water bath or in microwave and set asside.

Meanwhile bring to a boiling point whipping cream, milk and honey. Squeeze gelatin sheets to get out extra moisture. Add the gelatin to the heated cream and mix well to make it melt completely. Pour hot milk over white chocolate (in 3 rounds) stirring well each time, then use your hand blender and blend it all for a couple of minutes. Gradually add mascarpone while still blending. Cover the bowl with plastic wrap and place it in the refrigerator until it solidifies, for at least 8 hours, better all night.

Prepare the crust. Blend almonds. In a bowl, combine sifted flour and icing sugar, a pinch of salt and blended almonds. Add cold butter, cut into small pieces, and work flour together with butter until you get a sandy texture.

Add egg and lemon zest. Knead briefly to mix all the ingredients. Create a dough ball, wrap it in a plastic wrap, and place in the fridge for at least 1 hour.

After this time, put the dough in the middle of 2 sheets of baking paper and roll it out to a thickness of 3 to 4 mm.

Lightly grease and dust with flour your tart pan. Remove the upper baking paper then move the dough onto the pan leaving the other baking paper over it. Remove excess dough from the edge with a sharp knife. Cover the pan with another smaller pan or use dry beans (to be used only for this purpose) or ceramic balls and put it in the fridge for at least half an hour or in the freezer for 15 minutes.

Preheat the static oven to 160 ° - 180 °C and bake the dough in the middle of 2 pans for about 15 minutes. Take out the crust from the ovent, remove baking tray from above, and cool thoroughly before removing baking paper.

Next day pick up chocolate and mascarpone cream from the fridge and whip it briefly for 1 minute with an electric mixer to make it more spreadable and lighter.

Cover the crust base with the cream. Make smooth it out and garnish with blackberries and blueberries. Serve immediately or store in a refrigerator, garnished with some mint leaves.

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